People have been burned by low - quality cheap ebooks and are now wary of
buying any ebook priced at $ 0.99.
I can tell from first experience, even after selling 1600 copies in a month the earning doesn't constitute a «living», especially because readers hardly
buy an ebook priced over $ 3.99 unless you are one of the big names.
Not exact matches
I'd pay a high - end
price for a non-fancy eReader that hit my niche, and much more importantly
buy more Amazon
eBooks.)
Before the agency model, Amazon was
buying new
ebook releases at the wholesale
price of the hardcovers, then turning around and selling them for retail at dollars less.
I'll be a lot more likely to
buy it later when the mass market version comes out in print, and the accompanying
ebook price comes down.
This flexibility of
ebook pricing let libraries choose the best way of
buying your books.
Many will not be able to afford better than secondhand
prices for books in general, which counts them out of
buying most if not all
ebooks, and never mind the expense of a device to actually read them on.
By high
pricing on
ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower
pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally
buy the more expensive hardcover over to the
ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as well.
The only shoppers that can
buy your
eBook at the MatchBook
price are those that
buy or have
bought — at any time from Amazon — your print book edition.
A rise in paper
prices has concomitantly driven more readers to
buy ebooks.
12 % said that the
price is right, but they would not
buy ebooks if the
price increased even further and 8 % said they no longer
buy ebooks and exclusively borrow them from the library.
Then often the
ebook price is just 2 - 3 Euros lower then than the
price for the hardcover book, later when you can
buy the paperback it is usually cheaper than the
ebook, because that was
priced after the hardcover and since book
prices are fixed, it usually can not be changed easily.
Numerous Kindle owners try to
buy eBooks at a good
price online, only to get disgruntled when they aren't compatible.
You can find books, where the
price for the
ebook is actually higher than for the paperback, so why should someone
buy an inferior product (in terms of ownership)?
In addition because of lower
eBook prices and the greater ease of shopping and
buying ebooks versus a trip to a physical book store, my reading experience has broadened and become more experimental.
I will also honor the sale
price for anyone who wants to
buy the
ebook directly from me in the format of their choice!
If I love a story I'll probably
buy a print copy after I've read (and already
bought) the
ebook, so wouldn't be prepared to pay «full»
price there either.
Buy her our Year + plan (12 months for the
price of 10, plus a free
ebook, excluding Sparkler Distro) or a 12 - month YearVIP + Membership (tons more downloads + free
ebook, excluding Sparkler Distro) for the gift that keeps giving all year.
Since big publishers won their lawsuit and jacked
eBook prices way up, I don't
buy big pub books anymore.
I wrote not that long ago about the new version of the WH Smith
eBook store, and when Kindle launched I compared the
prices of a selection of books — essentially looking at those I've
bought, and comparing what the
price would be to
buy the whole collection again for Kindle, or just to
buy them all now, if I were starting from scratch.
The sale
price applies wherever Faerie Blood «s
ebook edition is sold, and I will honor it for any requests to
buy the book directly from me as well!
When I see a lot of new novels in SF / F coming out at digital
price points of $ 12.99, $ 13.99, and $ 14.99, or novellas coming out at
price points like $ 9.99, then yes, I'm going to
buy fewer new
ebooks.
, I also note that nowhere in this article does it mention how the uptick in
pricing lately has made
ebook buying prohibitive for a lot of readers.
I know readers say that now, that they would not try a new debut author at $ 2.99 but this is because there has been
ebooks introduced at $ 0.99 in the first place by Amazon for years;) but if $ 2.99 was the absolute minimum available from the beginning readers would
buy a book at that
price because it would be considered the «entry
price».
I used to always
price my
ebooks at.99 just because I thought I was helping the reader be able to
buy more books.
Is it because lower
prices all around encourage more
ebook buying overall?
Now, I either stick to the 99 cent
eBooks or I
buy used hardcovers at $ 4 - 5 with shipping because I'm just not willing to
buy 80 books a year at an average
price of $ 12.
Writers can set the
prices of their
ebooks higher than $ 9.99, but who's going to
buy those, and then their royalties are cut in half.
A lower
ebook price isn't worth much if people can't
buy your book.
Amazon talks a real good talk about how lower
ebook prices mean more sales, but when they're going out of their way to make it hard for customers to
buy Hachette
ebooks, it's the authors who're losing the sales.
Back in 2010, Amazon pulled the
buy buttons from Macmillan titles in a dispute over
ebook pricing.
Stop
buying ebooks across the board, at any
price, under any terms.
If you're wondering why someone would
price an
ebook at $ 0.99 or $ 1.99 it's because it effectively turns a risky purchase into an impulse
buy.
As the owner of an
ebook and ereader blog that is heavily invested in research into the tablet industry, I would advise windows tablet purchasers to wait about a year before
buying to give software developers and microsoft the chance to work the bugs out as well as the
price to come down to the point it appeals to mainstream consumers rather than early adopters.
Despite the fact that
ebook readers are not consuming paper, ink, or fuels associated with shipping costs, they would now pay the same
price for a digital download as they would be required to if they had
bought print.
With a
price structure that often puts physical and digital editions of bestsellers within only a few rupees of each other, there seems to be little rush to
buy ebooks.
I agree, the jacked up
ebook prices are outrageous to me, and I won't
buy any version no matter what.
I've
bought a bunch of audiobooks this year, but mostly due to whispersync discount
pricing (discount when you have purchased the
ebook).
Why
buy a new Kobo and pay higher
prices for
ebooks when you can get a lower
price (sometimes $ 2.00 — $ 3.00 lower) for the same
ebook at Amazon?
I don't think it's fair to lump all people reading pirated
eBooks into the same category, because many of them are victims of higher institutions of learning that force their students to
buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small print runs, jacking the
price of a hardcover textbook up to over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming out every year, making any «used» book market obsolete.
Beginning as a site that lets users
buy a bundle of video games for a better
price than they could if they were to choose titles individually, Humble Bundle has expanded their service to include
eBooks and Audio as well.
Firstly, give people a legitimate and reasonably
priced way of
buying ebooks, lending
ebooks, moving
ebooks from one ereader to another, and so on, and the vast majority of readers won't pirate
ebooks.
No wonder
ebook buyers are nuying less as we realize how easy it is to loose our books when we can
buy hard copy for the same
price.
At $ 10 — $ 15 per month I think plenty of avid
ebook readers would be willing to sign up, because they're probably already
buying at least one
ebook at retail
prices each month.
People resist
ebook pricing because they have been told
ebooks are a product, they perceive
ebooks as a product, and the value of
buying what amounts to electrons is difficult to perceive.
While publishers would lose money on accounts signed to voracious readers who currently
buy numerous
ebooks every month at retail
prices, those folks are outliers.
But mostly, the obscene
pricing of
ebooks keeps me from
buying books.
That's fine if you've got some mega blockbuster book everyone has been waiting on, but we know from
buying history that
eBook buyers are pretty
price sensitive so discounting a book by just a few dollars probably won't work.
Rather, these
price disparities finally serve as a vital reminder to comparison shop at multiple outlets before
buying an
eBook.
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